A Tale of Two Diplomats
Dec-24-2013
British diplomat Michael Easton with underage "ladyboy" on a Pattaya Beach, Thailand street
Diplomat Ms. Khodragade and Mr. Easton: both diplomats but worlds apart in the miscarriage of justice.
(LONDON) - One diplomat is a 39-year old Indian woman who this week was hauled into a New York City jail, stripped, subjected to a humiliating “full body cavity search,” and charged with a convoluted visa fraud violation which could bring her a 10-year prison sentence.
The other “diplomat” isn’t really a diplomat but an official cover British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6) working undercover in the British Embassy in Moscow who clearly is afforded more diplomatic protection than the proper Indian diplomat abused by American authorities this week.
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian deputy consul in New York. Michael Easton, a Second Secretary at the British embassy in Moscow. These two diplomatic figures couldn’t be more different. Ms. Khobragade apparently ran afoul of U.S. visa regulations that are as complicated as the U.S. tax code and may have made a simple error in bureaucratic procedural codes which caused this harsh American police state response.
